UNIDENTIFIED Gunmen, suspected to be kidnappers, have reportedly abducted a businessman in Aba, the commercial nerve of Abia State.

President of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Aminu Maigari, has announced that elections into the executive committee of the NFF will hold before September 25 after an extra ordinary congress on September 18.

The Nigerian Chamber of Shipping has called on all stakeholders in the Nigerian maritime industry to support the Nigerian Shippers’ Council in its new role as economic regulator of the nation’s port industry.

An ugly dimension has been introduced to the fight against the deadly Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, as some hospitals in Imo State are said to be rejecting patients who come in with complaints of fever.

By Jimitota Onoyume, Olasunkanmi Akoni, Austin Ogwuda, Luka Binniyat, Gabriel Olawale & Mayen Etim The Ebola outbreak in Nigeria’s oil city, Port Harcourt, could spread wider and faster than in the financial capital, Lagos, the World Health Organisation has warned, even as the United States of America denied allegations that it declined to assist in […]

The United States of American warned yesterday that the reputation of Nigeria’s military was at stake while the future of the country and her children is in jeopardy following the capture of some towns in the north eastern part of the country in the last few weeks by Boko Haram terrorists.

WARRI —THE effect of the strike embarked upon by the Warri Zone of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, since last week, continued to bite harder on residents of Warri and environs as all petrol stations were closed to business yesterday.

DELTA State Independent Electoral Commission, DSIEC, has announced Chief Oluwole Karetimi’s as the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chairmanship flag bearer for Bomadi Local Government Area in the forthcoming council elections in the state.

BORN in 1925 in the ancient town of Owo in Ondo State, Pa Samuel came from the Sashere pedigree, noted for discipline, courage, industry and forthrightness.

Congo are expected to fly into Nigeria today after they kept the NFF in the dark over their travel plans for most of the week.

NATIONAL President, Association of Families of Oil and Gas Producing Communities, ASFOGAPCOM, Mr. Joseph Abinogun, has called on the Federal Government to include Oil and Gas landowners in the management of the proposed 10 percent Petroleum Host Communities Fund.

Qatar National Bank, QNB, the Gulf’s largest bank, has acquired the stake of Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria, AMCON, in Transnational Incorporated, ETI, amounting to $200 million (about N32 billion), which represents 12.5 percent stake in the bank.

IN a bid to have their own houses, Abia State civil servants have contributed about N1.46 billion into the coffers of the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria, FMBN.

EBONYI State government, yesterday, signed $1.14 billion contract with foreign partners for the construction of the state’s Independent Power Plant, IPP.

A middle-aged man, identified as Mr. Moses Uzoma, has reportedly drowned at a river which serves as a boundary between Abia and Rivers states.